Totally get that, it changes how you listen to everything else. That raw vibe just hits different once you find it.

Yeah the whole "posting routes and times" thing. I mean now if you don't upload your heart rate zones did you even really go? It's like the run doesn't count until it gets a few likes. I miss when the only person I was racing was me trying to beat my own time from Tuesday, not some guy I went to high school with.

My neighbor ran a vacuum repair shop out of his garage for twenty years. He never bought a single ad, not in the paper or online. His whole business was built on people telling their friends who to call when their cleaner broke. He said those customers came back every time and never questioned his price. There's something about a personal recommendation that money can't buy.